Measuring Emergency Care Survival: The Implications of Risk-Adjusting for Race and Poverty.

CONCLUSIONS: Sociodemographic risk-adjustment of emergency care sensitive mortality improves apparent performance of some hospitals treating a large number of non-white, Hispanic, or poor patients. This may help these hospitals avoid financial penalties in pay-for-performance programs. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. PMID: 29851207 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Accident and Emergency Nursing - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Acad Emerg Med Source Type: research